[ExI] Why Physics Needs Philosophy

[Dan TheBookMan]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2015/04/physics-needs-philosophy/

The payoff:

"What philosophy offers to science, then, is not mystical ideas but meticulous method. Philosophical skepticism focuses attention on the conceptual weak points in theories and in arguments. It encourages exploration of alternative explanations and new theoretical approaches. Philosophers obsess over subtle ambiguities of language and over what follows from what. When the foundations of a discipline are secure this may be counter-productive: just get on with the job to be done! But where secure foundations (or new foundations) are needed, critical scrutiny can suggest the way forward. The search for ways to marry quantum theory with general relativity would surely benefit from precisely articulated accounts of the foundational concepts of these theories, even if only to suggest what must be altered or abandoned."

Note: no mention of Mortimer Adler here. I wonder why?

Regards,

Dan
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